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While New York Fashion Week was in full swing last weekend, a few other things were swinging outside Manhattan’s Rivington Design House during a public naked performance art piece.
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Performance artists Matthew...

"Free your breasts, free your mind!"
The rallying cry of the gotopless.org activists rang out on Broadway as they marched bare-chested from Columbus Circle to East 47th Street on Sunday. New York City was one of nearly 60 cities across the globe to march on August 28 in GoTopless Pride...

The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is set to get a facelift — putting it ahead of the competition.
After Wednesday’s announcement to transform Penn Station, Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued on a roll Thursday morning as he announced the 1.2-million-square-foot expansion of the waterfront...

All New York City schools have been closed due to expected heavy snowfall and treacherous travelling conditions.
"Due to expected significant snowfall all @NYCSchools will be CLOSED tomorrow, Feb 9," Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted.
Earlier, meteorologists forecast up to 12 inches of...

Lisa Lampanelli, the “queen of mean,” isn’t known for keeping mum. She said her parents taught her never to talk about who she is voting for or how much money she makes. Everything else is fair game.
Animal adoption and body issues are two topics the comic will talk about freely...

Though you may know someone battlingthem, brain, pancreatic, ovarian, thyroid, leukemia, lymphoma and countless other cancers are still considered rare forms of the disease.
While they make up roughly 50 percent of all cancer diagnoses combined, theresearch on many of them is“drastically...

461 Dean is full of firsts.
The 32-story residential tower is the first modular, or sectional prefabricated, high-rise in the world. It’s also the first apartment building to open in Pacific Park Brooklyn, a 22-acre mixed-use community that links Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Park Slope and...

Yet another train derailment on Monday at Penn Station has experts' wheels turning aboutthe apparent uptick in commuter train issues in the New York region recently, with four crashes occurring in six months.At around 9 a.m. on Monday, aNJTransit train carrying 1,200 passengers derailed at a slow...

A slow-moving New Jersey Transit train derailed Monday morning at Penn Station, causing service disruptions and delays for travelers trying to get into the city during the morning commute.The cause of the derailment is believed to be a faulty wheel, WNYC reported. A NJTransit spokesperson was not...

An East Harlem man was sentenced Monday to life in prison for gunning down a police officer in 2015, a case that angered city officials because the killer was on the streets and should have been jailed on a drug charge.Tyrone Howard, 32, was convicted of first-degree murder by a Manhattan Supreme...

Curtis Sliwa emerged as a controversial figure in New York in the late 1970s as the founder of the Guardian Angels. He has parlayed his success as an activist into a career as a political commentator on television and radio. He took time between his radio shows to speak with Metro New York at the...

A dream that seemed unfeasible a few months ago — to close the troublesome Rikers Island jail — apparently will be realized because of the unrelenting advocates who turned a remote possibility into a priority in the space of a year.A new report about the jail’s ills released Sunday coincides with...

The Rikers Island jail complex will be closed, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday afternoon.“New York City has always been better than Rikers Island. I am proud to chart a course for our city that lives up to this reality,” de Blasio said.“Our success in reducing crime and reforming...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has dropped his objections to closing the city's Rikers Island jail complex after being presented with a special panel's recommendation to phase out the violence-marred facility, the New York Times reported on Friday.A 27-member panel, which has been studying the...

Our long national nightmare is over. Well, maybe not, but at least it’s baseball season.With Opening Day around the corner, one question must be answered: Which New York team do New Yorkers love the most, the Mets or Yankees?The answer: Yes.A preseason poll released Friday found that the Mets held...

Hurricane Sandy battered much of New York City but one of its lesser-known victims was a Brooklyn music label specializing in rock and rockabilly sounds released on vinyl records.After the October 2012 storm roared through, Norton Records in Red Hook was flooded, its inventory destroyed and its...

Finally, details of the mysterious renovations that will shut down the Waldorf Astoria Hotel for at least two years have been revealed.Renderings of the refurbished lobby, the facade and key interior spaces were unveiled Wednesday. They show a faithfulness to the historical original design and art...

Initials results from new testing for lead in New York City school water show potentially toxic contaminationat dozens of schools. However, city officials insist that all unsafe water is taken off-line.As a response to the water crises in Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey, the city announced...

On any given Sunday, Jamila Hooker will be in her Harlem apartment with a magic marker in hand, making black swooping marks on postcards that she will mail to dozens, hundreds, thousands of people across the globe.All she wants in return is a photo of the recipient holding the postcard on which she...